When my (7yo) Vigor130 gave up during the very hot weather in the summer, I switched to using a Zyxel 3295-B10C (from memory) in modem mode. The problem I found with this setup came down to the intermediate caching/bufferbloat it introduced, which was a pain to combat using QOS and in the process ate into my already not stellar speeds. I gave up on the Zyxel and switched back to a HG612V3b modem for a bit, but as this is now an ancient piece of kit swapped again as soon as I managed to "acquire" a Vigor 166 (v3) without having to pay the normal exorbitant price.
